Professor Joy Damousi
| Head of School of Historical Studies | |
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| Telephone: | (+61 3) 8344 5961 |
| Email: | j.damousi@unimelb.edu.au |
| Fax: | (+61 3) 8344 7894 |
| Location: | Room 311 West History, John Medley Building The University of Melbourne VIC 3010 |
| Academic Profile (click on the link for more information) | |
| Biography | |
| Research | |
| Publications | |
| Supervision | |
Biography
- Qualifications:
- BA Hons (Latrobe); PhD., (ANU)
- Professional Societies:
- Fellow, Australian Academy of Humanities (2004); Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia (2004)
- Editorial Boards:
- Member of Australian Historical Studies; Labour History; Gender and History (UK); Women’s History Review (UK)
- Prizes:
- 2006 Ernest Scott History Prize for Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia, (UNSW Press)
Projects in Progress
- Elocution Lessons: A History of Speech and Sound, 1840-1940
- Emotions at Play: Beyond the Football Boundary, co-authored with John Cash
- Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the History of Sound co-edited with Desley Deacon
- The Transnational Unconscious: Essays in Psychoanalysis and Transnationalism, co-edited with Mariano Plotkin
Research interests
Australian cultural history; feminist and women’s history; memory and war; history of emotions; the self and psychoanalysis; football and popular culture; histories of speech, accent and elocution.
Selected publications
Books
- Damousi, Women Come Rally: Communism, Socialism and Gender in Australia 1890-1955, Oxford University Press, (1994)
- Joy Damousi, Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia, Cambridge University Press (1997)
- Joy Damousi, The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia, Cambridge University Press, (1999)
- Joy Damousi, Living With the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-War Australia, Cambridge University Press, (2001)
- Joy Damousi, Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia, UNSW Press, (2005)
Edited books
- Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds (eds), History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis, Melbourne University Press, (2003)
- Joy Damousi and Katherine Ellinghaus (eds), Citizenship, Women and Social Justice, University of Melbourne Monographs, (1999)
- Joy Damousi and Marilyn Lake (eds), Gender and War: Australians At War in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge (1995)
Chapters
- Joy Damousi, 'Making the Ordinary Extraordinary in the 1950s: Explorations of Interiority and Australian Cultural History', in Hsu-Ming Teo and Richard White (eds), Cultural History in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney (2003) pp. 214-225
- Joy Damousi, ‘The State and the Widow: Pension Debates in Inter-War Australia', in Lynne Haney and Lisa Pollard (eds), Families of a New World: Gender, Politics and State Development in a Global Context, Routledge, New York (2003), pp.99-118
- Joy Damousi, ‘'Disorder, Invasion and "Irrationality" in the Federal Fanchise of 1902' in John Chesterman and David Philips (ed), Selective Democracy: Race, Gender and the Australian Vote, Melbourne Publishing Group, (2003) pp.60-70
- Joy Damousi, 'A History of Dreams: Modernity, Masculinity and Inner Life in the 1920s and 1930s', in Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds (eds), History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis, Melbourne University Press, (2003) pp.26-35
- Joy Damousi, ‘The Emotions of History’, in Stuart Macintyre (ed), The Historian’s Conscience: Australian Historians on the Ethics of History, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, (2004) pp.28-39
- Joy Damousi, ‘Working Widowed Mothers and Welfare Inspectors in Victoria in the 1920s and 1930s’, in Patricia Grimshaw, John Murphy and Belinda Probert (eds), Double Shift, Melbourne, Circa, (2005) pp.103-117
- Joy Damousi and John Cash, ‘Fathers and Daughters at Play’, in Matthew Nicholson and Rob Hess (eds), Football Fever: Moving the Goalposts, Melbourne, Maribyrnong Press, (2006), pp.219-228
- Joy Damousi, ‘The Responsibility of Empire: War and Commemoration’, in Deryck Shroeder and Stuart Ward (eds), The Oxford Companion to the British Empire: Australia, London, Oxford University Press (2007)
Articles
- Joy Damousi, ‘Private Loss, Public Mourning: Motherhood, Memory and Grief During the Inter-War Years', in Women's History Review, vol.8, no.2, June 1999, pp. 347-360
- Joy Damousi, ‘Writing Gender into History and History in Gender: Creating A Nation and Australian Historiography', in Gender and History, November 1999, pp. 612-624
- Joy Damousi, ‘History Matters: The Politics of Grief and Injury in Australian History', in Australian Historical Studies, no.118, 2002, pp. 100-112
- Joy Damousi, ‘Agnes Milne: The Factory Inspector as Political Agitator, 1896-1906’, in Labour History, no.87, November 2004, pp. 11-30
- Joy Damousi and John Cash, ‘Inside Footy Mania', in Meanjin, vol. 63, no.4, 2004, pp. 218-225
- ‘ "The Filthy American Twang”: Elocution, the Advent of American “Talkies” and Australian Cultural Identity’, in American Historical Review, April 2007.
- ‘Australian Medical Intellectuals and the Great War’, in Australian Journal of Politics and History, September 2007.
Supervision
Recent Phd Completions
- Sarah Pinto, Emotional Histories: Contemporary Australian Historical Fictions, (2007)
- Belinda Sweeney, “Her Brain was Affected": Discourses about Women in Prostitution in Australia and the United States, 1885-1935, (2006)
- Rebecca Aitzen, "Like Gefilte Fish Out of Water”: Reading Jewish Femininity in Australia, (2006)
- Jennifer Pullman, Playing the Game: Cricket, the MCG and change in Colonial Self-Image, 1860-1900, (2005)
- Leigh Boucher, Unsettled Men: Settler Colonialism, Whiteness and Masculinity in Victoria 1851 – 1886, (2005)